Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Current Favourite Lip Combo - MAC Please Me Dupe

If you managed to catch my post yesterday, you may have noticed that I picked up a few beauty items on my recent trip home. In the stash are these two. The Maybelline Color Drama lip pencil in Minimalist and MAC's Please Me matte lipstick. Even though I'd only bought them a few days apart, I never realised how similar they are. (Shhh, don't tell the other half!) I'll let the swatches do the talking:

Colour wise, (ignoring the Rimmel lip liner just now) both are a muted, dusky pink. The finish is different with Minimalist having a slightly frosted appearance and Please Me being matte; however when these are applied, the difference is microscopic.

Although the Rimmel liner looks much darker here, I've actually found this to work really well with both of these lip colours, and the lippie/liner combo has been my go-to lip look since picking these up. I haven't been wearing anything else. Perhaps we'll be needing an intervention soon.

The difference between these products really does come down to quality. Whilst the Maybelline lip pencil is pretty darn good for its meager price tag, it isn't quite of the same calibre as MAC in my opinion. You really do get what you pay for I guess. The MAC formula is much creamier and easier to apply, with MAC beating Maybelline hands down in terms of longevity. That being said, I think the bargain price of the Maybelline lip pencils will definitely have me re-purchasing and perhaps saving the good stuff for when I'm not nipping to the shops for pizza and chocolate.

If you're still in doubt, here's the Maybelline Color Drama/Rimmel Rose Quartz duo on my face:

I love these types of rosy-pink-neutral shades. MAC's Hot Gossip, which is in the similar but a little pinker with more of a sheen finish, is one of my all time favourites. Actually, I need to add the other MAC pinky neutrals to my collection (Please Me, Brave, Giddy). :-)

such a beautiful shade, i think i'll have to pick up the maybelline one - i want to buy a mac lipstick but i just can't bring myself to spend that on a lipstick (give it time give it time) - great post!